Harvard Sitkoff
{{Short description|American historian (born 1940)}}
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Harvard Sitkoff is an American historian.
- Born: January 4th, 1940 {{cite web|title=Harvard Sitkoff Obituary|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/harvard-sitkoff-obituary?id=57283182|website=Legacy|accessdate=11 April 2025|quote=Harvard Sitkoff Obituary}}
- Died: January 9th, 2025 (age 85) {{cite web|title=Harvard Sitkoff Obituary|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/harvard-sitkoff-obituary?id=57283182|website=Legacy|accessdate=11 April 2025|quote=Harvard Sitkoff Obituary}}
Life
He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.{{cite web|title=Harvard Sitkoff|url=https://www.overdrive.com/creators/155395/harvard-sitkoff|website=OverDrive|accessdate=30 January 2017|quote=Harvard Sitkoff, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire [...] He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.}}
Career
He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire.{{cite web|url=http://www.newswise.com/articles/noted-civil-rights-scholar-authors-acclaimed-biography-of-mlk|title=Noted Civil Rights Scholar Authors Acclaimed Biography of MLK|website=www.newswise.com|date=January 10, 2008}} He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammad Ali,{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.eu/article/muhammad-ali-dies-at-74/|title=Muhammad Ali dies at 74|first=David|last=Cohen|date=4 June 2016|publisher=|website=Politico}} and has also written on the politics of Martin Luther King Jr.{{cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2016/01/18/martin-luther-king-jr-celebrations-overlook-his-critiques-of-capitalism-and-militarism/|title=Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism|first=Zaid |last=Jilani|date=2016-01-18|website=The Intercept}} Describing that period, Sitkoff has called the summer of 1967 the "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed".{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/ |title=The Secret History of Guns |first=Adam |last=Winkler |magazine=The Atlantic|date=September 2011|publisher=}}
Partial Bibliography
- The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
- King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
- A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
- The Struggle for Black Equality
- Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- Fifty Years Later: New Deal Evaluated
- Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://us.macmillan.com/author/harvardsitkoff/}}
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:American male non-fiction writers
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